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clarksn on "Funding Crisis in Welsh Emergency Services"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=63752#post-186204
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 08:55:44 +0000clarksn186204@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>never!
</p>blacklesbian on "Funding Crisis in Welsh Emergency Services"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=63752#post-185577
Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:17:28 +0000blacklesbian185577@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Do you think Penny and Sam will ever get it together?
</p>clarksn on "Funding Crisis in Welsh Emergency Services"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=63752#post-185576
Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:08:39 +0000clarksn185576@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>The Welsh Assembly has ordered an inquiry into a chronic funding shortage in the emergency services in South Wales.</p>
<p>In particular the inquiry will be asked to look into the excessive funding required to service the small village of Pontypandy, which has an abnormal number of diverse emergency incidents for its population, thereby requiring not only a full complement of fire appliances but also full time rescue helicopter, quad bike, 4x4 and RIB.</p>
<p>A significant number of the incidents have allegedly been caused by a single individual who cannot be named for legal reasons due to his age. Questions have been raised as to why a prosecution has not been brought, however local Fire Officer Steele is reported to have said that he prefers to take an <blockquote>educational</blockquote> approach when dealing with the young man responsible. </p>
<p>Chief Fire Officer Boyce, in overall command of the area which includes Pontypandy, pointed out that they had hoped to subsidise the Service from selling the TV rights to a fly on the wall documentary series, however so far interest had been limited to children’s TV channels.</p>
<p>It is anticipated that the inquiry will also be asked to look into the use of official uniforms when off duty including when moonlighting by officers. In particular it has been said that one fire officer continues to wear his uniform to play a superhero in his off duty hours as the self-styled <blockquote>hero next door</blockquote>.
</p>Sinnick on "Horrific Japan Airlines Dreamliner Fire Worse in the Imagination"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54338#post-156944
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:01:11 +0000Sinnick156944@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>The title didn't quite grab me, which is why I've only just read it properly. The content is excellent, but the punchline IMO drifts off slightly. Couldn't do better myself, obviously.
</p>Sinnick on "Horrific Japan Airlines Dreamliner Fire Worse in the Imagination"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54338#post-156941
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:58:03 +0000Sinnick156941@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>It's also short for "submarine", if that helps.
</p>rikkor on "Horrific Japan Airlines Dreamliner Fire Worse in the Imagination"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54338#post-156903
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:49:25 +0000rikkor156903@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Submit!
</p>Mr Target on "Horrific Japan Airlines Dreamliner Fire Worse in the Imagination"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54338#post-156901
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:44:52 +0000Mr Target156901@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Sub here is short for "submission", a piece submitted for consideration. </p>
<p>We also sometimes use it as a verb, which confuses journalists who use "subbing" to mean sub-editing.
</p>BleepingTom on "Horrific Japan Airlines Dreamliner Fire Worse in the Imagination"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54338#post-156864
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:00:30 +0000BleepingTom156864@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>thanks I've lurked for a while and realised I've not done any proper non-academic writing for about 5 years. Just a quick question what do you mean by sub? Is that a heading or a word for first post or what? I'm a bit ignorant on what the deal with newsbiscuit is I just enjoy the writing.
</p>Perks on "Horrific Japan Airlines Dreamliner Fire Worse in the Imagination"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54338#post-156862
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:54:34 +0000Perks156862@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Nice first sub.</p>
<p> I have an issue with over reaction to non stories.
</p>BleepingTom on "Horrific Japan Airlines Dreamliner Fire Worse in the Imagination"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54338#post-156851
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:15:19 +0000BleepingTom156851@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Japan Airlines today said that a horrific fire that broke out on one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners while parked and not-filled with passengers in Boston was minor and dealt with quickly by ground staff. </p>
<p>Dramatic video shows the Dreamliner dramatically immobile on tarmac engulfed by fire-crews and thick billowing clouds, of a mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen</p>
<p>The non-inferno engulfed the airliner which was not-packed with up to 300 passengers. Women and children were suspected to have been on the plane before disembarking at the destination where it didn't spectacularly burst into flames a while after the plane was emptied.</p>
<p>Expert sources on the crash have contributed to this rapidly developing story "I don't want to be an alarmist, but onboard fires on airplanes are as bad as it gets," said Carter Leake, an analyst at BB&amp;T Capital Markets in Virginia (Genuine Quote). Confirming public suspicions about fires on commercial airliners.</p>
<p>Onlookers have stated how awful it would have been if the fire had been in mid-air and the plane had been full of a school returning from a trip to japan, or if it had been carrying popular boy band One Direction back from a tour of the US, or if it had been a boat on the ocean, and had hit an iceberg and there weren't enough lifejackets for everyone on the seabound plane and they had to shoot some passengers to stop them from taking the lifejackets. One onlooker remarked "It was like a horrible movie or some other piece of fiction"</p>
<p>Boeing have said they will look into technical faults and have acknowledged problems with a brand new airline that has passed a huge number of technical safety tests. For this impoverished reporter, this can't happen soon enough. This definitely cannnot happen soon enough
</p>confuzzled on "North of Britain puts faith in mystical “fire orb” in sky to combat the flood"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44694#post-127984
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:58:22 +0000confuzzled127984@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>With the north of Britain gripped in floods the inhabitants has put faith in the “fire orb”. Apparently there is a “sphere of fire” that rest in sky, but British scientist have found little evidence for this, ancient stone tablets have claim that at the beginning of time “the earth made love to the sky to create a son of born of fire”.</p>
<p>Scientist have suggested that the mythical phenomenon is “like rain but only warm and dry”. Records that date back to the summer 2011 suggest that a weather condition that resemble the myth had happened but only briefly, but the majority of the British public remains skeptical.
</p>dvo4fun on "Inhuman Resources"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35255#post-99532
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:24:12 +0000dvo4fun99532@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>err............
</p>Vertically Challenged Giant on "Inhuman Resources"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35255#post-99496
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:06:26 +0000Vertically Challenged Giant99496@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Much better than Kazytc's poem, and nowhere near as many exclamation marks!!
</p>beau-jolly on "Inhuman Resources"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35255#post-99488
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:39:24 +0000beau-jolly99488@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Kazytc? Is that you?</p>
<p>BTW the stars appeared from nowhere not from me.
</p>A.Parody on "Inhuman Resources"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35255#post-99478
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:21:20 +0000A.Parody99478@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Dear (<em>enter your complete name here</em>),<br />
It seems this news could be awkward or queer,<br />
And so we'd rather fire you by mail,<br />
But cheer your spirits with this regale,<br />
Of joyous rhymes all lined hereafter,<br />
A day of sorrow on your departure.<br />
As you may know your performance was lacking,<br />
And despite your best efforts you’re for the sacking,<br />
The chop, the cull, the great unknown,<br />
Enjoy unemployment, you're not alone,<br />
So take solace in the thought of new found of friendship,<br />
Even though you cash flow is all but ended,<br />
We're sort of sad to see you go,<br />
But know that some one else will show,<br />
That you were never really key,<br />
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A new young buck of twenty one<br />
Will work for less and be much more fun,<br />
So pack you stuff and leave that stapler,<br />
The blackberry and your calculator,<br />
Undo you tie and scream and curse,<br />
You'll end up looking all the worse,<br />
Aft’ thirty years your work here is done,<br />
(We've all known for weeks, so has your son)<br />
If you go look underneath the loo,<br />
A farewell card from us to you,<br />
Will be waiting there, signed and sealed,<br />
And just in case you do not yield,<br />
Security are on high alert,<br />
'Cause, this may very well hurt,<br />
Our share's have dropped, they have no worth,<br />
And so your cash is all but earth,<br />
So that is all. Goodbye. Farewell,<br />
We wish you luck in the up coming hell,<br />
We hope you're wife and kids don't leave you<br />
And like us begin t'completely see through,<br />
Your crap façade, but keep on smiling,<br />
Every cloud has a silver lining.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,</p>
<p>A.Parody
</p>Des Custard on "Corrie actress failed to suffer enough in real life fire incident"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30889#post-87032
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:03:49 +0000Des Custard87032@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>5*. Did she really jump off a church tower to prevent a woman killing a baby?
</p>Oxbridge on "Corrie actress failed to suffer enough in real life fire incident"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30889#post-87026
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:50:38 +0000Oxbridge87026@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Coronation Street actress Eileen Derbyshire has been criticised for getting herself burned on set in a drearily plausible way. Derbyshire, who has played Emily Bishop since the 1960s, reportedly got too close to a candle, setting the shawl she was wearing on fire, while filming a scene for the Bonfire Night episode. Unfortunately, Street insiders said, the flames were extinguished all too easily.</p>
<p>'We're all for actors developing story lines for their own characters and it's quite likely a daft old bat like Emily Bishop would do something like that at some point,' said producer Jason Newell, 21. 'But just getting the fire put out straight away with a fire extinguisher, calling a doctor and getting on with your work again? Oh dear me, no.'</p>
<p>Newell, who was brought in to add some more dramatic storylines to the much criticised soap, added that spontaneous human combustion is regarded as a potential sub-plot once the annual quotas of three murders, a rape, a natural disaster and 28 punch-ups at the Rover's Return have all been met. However, this would be more likely to happen to other more volatile characters.</p>
<p>'A photographers' studio gets firebombed while Rosie Webster is doing some topless modelling and she has to run half naked and screaming into the street. That might work. Or Gail McIntyre and Deirdre Barlow attacking each other with flamethrowers outside the Kabin. Or a fire at Underworld, causing multiple deaths among the characters we want rid of. We haven't done that in a few years,' he said.</p>
<p>'But Emily Bishop? What has she done in the past 47 years other than jilt her boss at the altar, abandon her deep religious principles to have a brief sexual relationship with a Hungarian revolutionary, get married to another man who is then murdered in a botched robbery, remarry an insane bigamist, have a mental breakdown and disappear, nearly marry a vicar, have a serial killer attempt to kill her with a crowbar, prevent a grief-crazed woman killing a baby by jumping off a church tower, then befriend a man who turned out to be her husband's killer? Trust me, no-one's going to believe it.'
</p>nannyknowsbest on "Hosepipe Ban opposed by Fireman's Union"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24223#post-65801
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:27:14 +0000nannyknowsbest65801@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>"We simply do not have sufficient buckets to cope with a major fire" said a union spokesman amid fears that only properties close to the sea or a river could be saved in the event of a fire.<br />
Fears were sparked after 2 days of unseasonably "warmish" weather had drained both of the UK's reservoirs to critical levels and Thames Water announced a hosepipe ban. Arnold Snodgrass, a spokesperson for Thames water said "After 2 days of warm weather, we need at least 16 weeks of continual downpour to replenish our water supplies to a level that will even cope with the leaks in the pipes, let alone allow us to even consider allowing hosepipes to be used". Speaking on a Radio 4 interview, he explained that "this is the warmest period we have had in almost a week and, as you can imagine, the water usage in our area has increased dramatically as people have been drinking it and watering the garden - this could not have come at worse time for us". He explained that their reservoir, situated near Reading, only held sufficient supplies to last another 2 days at the current levels of usage.<br />
Under new EU regulations, brought in last December, emergency services must now be treated like any other consumer (unless they can prove they are disabled or on benefits) and are subject to the same restrictions as the normal "man in the street".<br />
Claude Van-Warmer of the EU explained "this is part of the new equality regulations brought in to protect the vulnerable in our society and, if we make an exception for one, we would simply open the floodgates for everyone - so the fire service, along with everyone else must be made to understand that equality means just that - with no exceptions".<br />
The bucket manufacturing "Eurobuckets", partially owned by Mr Van-Warmer, has seen a massive surge in profits since this new law was introduced.<br />
Martin Baker, spokesman for the fire service Union "Extinguish", said, "We have lost over 400 inland properties in the last week, despite our best efforts and can only now concentrate on homes close to the sea or a major river. Because we have to fill our engines by bucket, our response time has fallen from an average 4 minutes to just under 27 hours - and we find this unacceptable".<br />
No-one from Eurobucket was available for comment - as they were all on holiday.
</p>Ostsee on "Need a light for that camp fire? Your iPhone can do this as well!"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8336#post-22452
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:20:02 +0000Ostsee22452@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>With this app you just plug it into your charger and wait for the flames. Could be a life saver. Yet again it could burn your house down. Life is always exciting with your iPhone, buy 3 to make sure. Love, Steve J.
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